Climate Letter #592

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Carl Campbell
Drought, wildfires and famine—an underreported story from large sections of Africa.  All the different parts to this story are assembled here by Robert Fanney, who has a keen way of catching up with these things.  He notes that El Nino is very much involved, but this is an El Nino whose effects are amplified by an extra layer of heat, causing new extremes of damage.

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Fred Pearce, a top science writer, takes a long look at the El Nino cycle and its future, with a quick peak at the La Nina phase that always follows.  ” Unless you enjoy wild weather, the prognosis from here on out does not look good.”
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A practical way to quickly slow the pace of emissions.  This post features the work of Thomas Lovejoy and other students of tropical rainforests.  They make a strong case for not just preserving rainforests but preserving them in their natural state, without being penetrated and cut into smaller pieces.  The result, among other things, would be much less loss of carbon to the air and higher absorption rates from the air.  Help with policy enforcement would be well worth paying for.
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How utilities are fighting back against rooftop solar.  No one does it more effectively than in Florida, with the help of political cronies, as fully spelled out in this report by Tim Dickenson.  (Send it on to anyone you know who lives there.)  This post is a perfect follow-up for a story you can find in yesterday’s Climate Letter.  Stopping catastrophic climate change would be ten times easier if everyone were on the same side—and if the public would get more involved.
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A new study shows how water stored on land affects the trend of sea level.  It is now possible to get accurate measurements from satellite data, and the numbers can be surprisingly large.  Much depends on where heavy rainfalls tend to be landing when weather patterns shift.
Check out the forecast made by Josh Willis in the fall of 2011, plus more on the coming of a new La Nina:
Carl

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